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Cognitive Pluralism via Steven Horst

The following is a description of philosopher Steven Horst’s model of cognitive pluralism. The human mind is ultimately a product of evolution in which different phylogenetic parts, or modules, of the...

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Social Science, Psychology, and Physics Envy

There is a common assumption that true scientific laws have no exceptions. These would be the basic laws of physics, for example. They hold over all time and space, in any situation, in regards to...

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Descriptive Inexhaustibility and its Implications

German-American philosopher Nicholas Rescher coined the term descriptive inexhaustibility, which refers to the fact that since the world (reality) is infinitely complex, our descriptions of it can...

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The Post-Philosophical Sciences of Humanity

For quite a while, the cognitive and neural sciences have been on the rise, along with a synergistic and ‘consilience’ style incorporation of evolutionary theorizing into the mix. This shift has been...

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